Episode 171

171 - Recap: Transformational Insights from the Ready Set Launch Retreat

Published on: 8th November, 2024

This episode recaps the first Design Coach Collective retreat, focusing on the experiences and insights gained by aspiring interior designers. The retreat emphasized community, identity exploration, niche definition, ideal client understanding, legal aspects of business, marketing strategies, and the importance of networking. Attendees engaged in various exercises and workshops aimed at enhancing their skills and building connections within the industry.

Takeaways

  • Community is essential for interior designers.
  • Understanding your niche leads to greater success.
  • Exploring personal identity enhances design practice.
  • Legal knowledge is crucial for starting a business.
  • Practical marketing strategies can be implemented immediately.
  • Networking can unlock new opportunities.
  • Creating a business plan is vital for growth.
  • AI tools can streamline design processes.
  • Nourishing oneself is important during intensive workshops.
  • Feedback from attendees is valuable for future retreats.

Check the Design Coach Collective coaching program at: DesignCoachCollective.com

Connect with Rachel Larraine Crawford:

Website / Email: Rachel@tigerveil.com

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About the Podcast

Holistic Interior Design Podcast
The people, spaces, and rituals shaping intentional design
Welcome to Holistic Interior Design, a podcast exploring the people, spaces, materials, and rituals shaping the future of intentional design.

Hosted by interior designer and creative director Rachel Crawford of Tiger Veil, this show goes beyond aesthetics to examine how thoughtful spaces influence emotion, connection, hospitality, wellbeing, and experience.

Through conversations with artists, makers, hoteliers, founders, and creative visionaries, alongside behind the scenes studio stories, design audits, seasonal rituals, and weekly reflections, Rachel shares a holistic perspective on designing spaces that feel as meaningful as they are beautiful.

From boutique hotels and restaurants to homes, wellness spaces, and immersive brand experiences, Holistic Interior Design is for creatives, founder operators, and anyone drawn to spaces with depth, story, and intention.

Topics include:
• hospitality + boutique hotel design
• sensory experience + guest psychology
• artists, makers, and material discoveries
• rituals for the home and workplace
• Feng Shui + energetic alignment
• wellness and intentional living
• storytelling through interiors
• founder journeys + creative process
• behind the scenes of a design studio
• emerging brands shaping the future of design

The best spaces don’t just look good.
They change how people feel.
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Rachel Crawford

Rachel is a Mystic, Reiki Master, Tarot Reader, Feng Shui Practitioner, Energy Healer, and Holistic Interior Designer, whose intimate connection to her intuition and ancestral roots enabled her to rise above a challenging childhood and blossom into the powerful and impassioned healer she is today.

Committed to empowering others by teaching modalities that support connection to intuition, Rachel hosts workshops and retreats focused on the ancient practices of Feng Shui, Tarot, crystals, herbs and oils, ritual and ceremony, astrology and metaphysics — in addition to live and virtual new moon and full moon circles.

Rachel also lends her harmonious and balancing acumen to the creation of energetically aligned spaces through Holistic Interior Design. Since earning her Associates Degree and Certificate in Interior Design 2005, she has created and collaborated on a multitude of award-winning residential and commercial spaces, including Realm of the 52 Remedies (with Onairos Design), all while becoming certified in Classical Flying Stars Feng Shui through the International School of Feng Shui (2015), studying the practices of Land Healing, Ritual, and Ceremony under Amanda Sophia & Alex Stark in Ireland, and with "House Whisperer," Christian Kyriacou.
Rachel's work has been featured in several exhibitions, including KAABOO, a music, comedy, culinary and art festival held in Del Mar, CA, where as part of an experiential art installation by Carly Ealey and Madeleine Tonzi, she created a crystal grid below the piece, clearing the participating auras before entering the installation. Her designs have been published in San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, Modern Luxury Magazine, San Diego Magazine, Exquisite Weddings, Style & Decor and Serendipity Magazine.

You may also connect with Rachel on a regular basis through Patreon, where she is is creating Mystical Rituals and Sacred Spaces, providing Tarot Readings, and nurturing spiritual connections.

Her Interior Design Projects can be found here Tigerveil.com